Destitution of Valencia’s King Harlot

Someone told me once that the best brothel in Spain, ever, was a mythical one run in medieval Valencia by one Rei Arlot under licence from the King of Aragon. The reality is slightly more predictable: King Harlot was the popular name given to the government official charged with regulating prostitution, and the office was abolished by Pere/Pedro/Peter IV in 1337 in response to the shameful abuses committed by successive holders. There’s nothing surprising in the proclamation (published in Rafael Salillas, El delincuente español), so I won’t translate it: